I was in retailing for a few years. My Lowes could be doing a retailing trick. If you get someone to buy a plant for a dollar they buy other plants for more. It is more like a come on retail trick. I do that sometimes. I will buy the dollar plant and buy a couple of their regular price plants if there is something different that I want.
The other thing is there is a Home Depot only five minutes down the road. They there is stiff competition. This Lowes even get garden plants to put on clearance for 1.00, 3.00 and 5.00 all through the growing season that they never had at regular price. I can go to Home Depot and see a plant selling for 25.00 go to Lowes and see the same plant on the clearance rake for 3.00. It is usually a plant they did not have regular price the week before. Maybe they are raiding Home Depot at night and bringing them up the street and putting them on their clearance rack.
It is just too strange.
I do a lot of plant shopping I am in all the BB stores at least once a week. I have rental property and doing rehab jobs on future rental property. Between staging with furniture, plants, and decorating projects I am constantly out shopping.
